Quotes About Execution

Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

I don't care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.

I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well.

Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we're embarrassed because that's not the way we want to play soccer.

What cannot be made simple cannot be made clear and what is not clear will not get done.

The trouble is that organizations like processes. They are warm, familiar things and can be rolled out fairly easily. It is therefore tempting to understand strategy execution as a process, distribute the forms, get everyone to fill them in, and relax. The result will be resentment, rigidity, and stagnation.

The big issue was not strategy but executing strategy. There was plenty of activity, but not much action.

the gap between promises and results," which it claims is itself a result of "the gap between what a company's leaders want to achieve and the ability of their organization to achieve it"; that is, the alignment gap – getting the organization to do what its leaders want.35

it is these miracles of execution," Clausewitz writes, "that we should really admire."9 The fact is that in war "things do not happen of their own accord like a well-oiled machine, indeed the machine itself starts to create resistance, and overcoming it demands enormous willpower on the part of the leader."10 In war, "everything is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult… taking action in war is movement in a resistant medium."11

The day Spenkelink was put to death a popular Jacksonville disc jockey aired a recording of sizzling bacon and dedicated it to the doomed man.

I love it when a plan comes together! - Hannibal Smith, A-Team

Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.

S × E)T = R ([Strategy times Execution] multiplied by Trust equals Results)

Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both." I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.

to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

It is in doing things and not reading about them that results come about.

The last person to be hanged in Glasgow at the age of 31 was a beast by the name of Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel, he swung from the gallows in Barlinnie Prison on 11 July 1958.

No successful business is run through thought. It requires people who work.

Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution

Three basic components must be considered when defining your objectives: your entry, postentry, and exit strategies.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R amp& D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R &amp D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

The problem is there are no simple "right" answers for most Web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need—carefully thought out, well executed, and tested.